Dublin life & culture.

Dublin Punk 1977 – 1983

I’ve a healthy obsession with Dublin punk/new wave from the late 70s till mid 80s. If I was asked, here would be my top five Dublin first wave punk singles:

1. The Radiators From Space – Television Screen (1977)

2. The Atrix – Treasure On The Wasteland (1980)

3. The Blades – Hot For You (1980)

4. The Boomtown Rats – Lookin’ After Number One (1977)

5. The Vipers – I’ve Got You (1978)

There are quite of number of other classic Dublin punk/new wave singles that are impossible to find either online or in real life. I think it would be a great idea to digitize as many as possible and put them online so they can be enjoyed by all. If anyone has any of the following singles lying in their attic or garage, please get in touch.

txt me if interested in stuff am at 0868401144,rarely go the eeeeeeemail route.that piece on that bloke aidan from the sinners was great.rem them!who was the us skinheaded bloke,always had leather jacket,trainers,worked inadvance for a while.wasnt there a band called the letters??????were they mods or powerpop he played in.used to see the graffiti around dublin in 79 or 79.also free booze,werent they a band,used to graffiti their monniker around.

I got the Berlin single – I’ll try and sort out digitising it. Got some more obscurities too… emmm… Sunday Morning by the The Fuze, Julie Cries by Eugene… probably a handful more all up in the attic… Keep us updated about hosting etc…

It be great to get them both digitised (even if The Fuze were from Cork!) ;)

You could either stick them on youtube yourself, send me an MP3 and I could stick it up on my youtube account or send it over to this guy who’d probably love to host the singles on his site – http://diyirishhardcorepunkarchive.blogspot.com

HOWS IT GOIN, YOUR BLOG TOOK ME BACK TO THOSE HEADY HALYCON DAYS OF THE 1970’s WHEN IT WAS FUCKIN DANGEROUS TO HAVE SPIKY HAIR AND A SAFETY PIN THROUGH ONES EARLOBE! THE DANDELION MARKET WAS OUR ROCK N ROLL VERSION OF THE GPO IN THAT 200 WALKED IN AND 200,000 WALKED OUT. EVERYBODY YA MEET SAYS THEY WERE THERE. I GIGGED THERE MYSELF 3 OR 4 TIMES. IF YA WANT THE FULL LIST OF BANDS THAT PLAYED BETWEEN 1979/80 JUST GOOGLE DANDELION MARKET. ALSO CHECK OUT IRISHROCK.ORG FOR AN A-Z LIST OF PUNK/NEW WAVE BANDS. I HAD A ROOT AROUND THE ATTIC AND FOUND SILENTLY SCREAMING AND SOME OLD THREAT POSTERS+TELEVISION SCREEN etc. WHILE I’M ON THE SUBJECT ME CURRENT BAND ”THE LEE HARVEYS” NEED A NEW DRUMMER FAST! WE PLAY PUNK WITH A POP EDGE/RAMONES/BUZZCOCKS SYLE. ORIGINAL TUNES. CHEERS

Hey Jacarax i managed to locate that threat poster+an old poster from the ivy rooms advertising stars of heaven, i also photo’d some old ramones and clash tickets from the 80’s and i’m still rummaging for my clash ticket from trinity college back in 77. If you give me your email i will send them to you.

hey bitzy, been trying to get a genuine irish clash poster and anything i can get my hands on for my dad who loved (and still does!!) the clash in his day!
any idea where i could get my hands on anything?
thanks!

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i have a lot of old vinyl incl 2 vipers releases.miceal sweeney,george’s brother was in school with me.also have the revolver one,the sussed one,all the it,good vibes,and other independent releases up north incl the tinopeners,what else drunken jury and very mental somewhere would have to look it out.have the first berlin one,threat,exile in the kingdom who i helped get on the world class punk release,teenage riot/catholic guilt from mullingar who i got on the german vinyl lp and tape ,tour de farce 2′.dermot mullen a punk mate of mine from the day has the world class punk c60 i.never really thought atrix were punk but have both releases sim dc nien but have their stuff.were the fuze not galway???????there was a punk band from cork called the kidz,punk rock who did an acetate 7” called ‘i’ll get caught’ in 79 or so.complete chaos hasd frank o neill the srfc skins leader,and joe morris.was atv school with him.they done a tape i think,also neu belsen

long time away sorry,michael sweeney went to marian college.was from navan road.good lad,more into HM but big into guitars used to hang with niall dunne and ian brennan(who became a garda).Mick’s brother george was in the Vipers.

Hi Jay yes I have some of them & already uploaded Zen Alligators thrill power A & B side. I never forget a face A & B side, I have you make my day its already uploaded by some else, but I will upload people who make peoples days in the next week or so. I have uploaded the Defenders A & B side, I am working on a band called BTS at the moment I want to upload there single. I have a resistors ep here I will stick up in a while, look check out my channel I am trying to upload rare irish singles I have since I was a kid, some where got cheap & where wrecked when I got them so there not great quality I stored them in the attic away from my main collection which I am sure did not help ! Gary